bmigaming.com — A new digital pinball machine--with a plasma screen for a playfield--from GlobalVR comes with six games, with add-ons available for an extra fee. (Classics like Attack from Mars, Medieval Madness, and Black Knight are available.) Interesting idea, but at $6475 it's quite pricey as a vehicle to let you play virtual--rather than "real"--pinball.
Oct 18, 2006 View in Crawl 4
racketboyOct 18, 2006
Very cool -- its like the MAME cabinet of pinball :)
nonfamousOct 18, 2006
Looks like it's based on Visual Pinball and VPinMame ( <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Pinball">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Pinball</a> ). You can play those games on your PC, and they're great. Putting them in a real cabinet with a tilt sensor and you've got a near-perfect experience. Visual Pinball hasn't been updated in many years, though. Did they purchase the code, license it, steal it or what?Edit: Wikipedia had the answer: "In 2005, David Foley purchased rights from Randy Davis for modification of Visual Pinball for a full-sized pinball cabinet based on Visual Pinball software. Chicago Gaming purchased rights for licensed tables from Williams Electronics. The Visual PinMAME team and Visual Pinball development community also joined in the effort to produce improvements to the Visual Pinball product and a few tables, which has yet to be produced."